CORRELATION OF MAMMOGRAPHY WITH MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN EVALUATION OF BREAST PATHOLOGIES.

DR.SHYAM CHHADI; DR. HARDILAS KAUR BEHAL

Volume : VIII, Issue : V, May - 2019

CORRELATION OF MAMMOGRAPHY WITH MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN EVALUATION OF BREAST PATHOLOGIES.

Dr. Shyam Chhadi, Dr. Hardilas Kaur Behal

Abstract :

Breast cancer has ranked number one cancer among Indian females with age adjusted rate as high as 25.8 per 100,000 women and mortality 12.7 per 100,000 women. Mortality to incidence ratio was found to be as high as 66 in rural registries whereas as low as 8 in urban registries. Besides this young age has been found as a major risk factor for east cancer in Indian women. Breast cancer projection for India during time periods 2020 suggests the number to go as high as 1797900.Better health awareness and availability of east cancer screening programmes and treatment facilities would cause a favorable and positive clinical picture in the country. This increases the responsibility of the radiologist to accurately and timely screen and diagnose east malignancy and various other pathologies. Various modalities are available for the evaluation of the east pathologies and screening of east cancer like- Conventional and Digital X ray Mammography Tomo-mammography Sono-mammography and MR mammography. Magnetic resonance imaging is non-ionizing, avoids harmful radiation to the lens. Excellent soft tissue details and multi-planar imaging is feasible. Bony artifacts are not seen and vessels can be identified by the contained flow void. In our present study, we have evaluated 32 patients with east pathologies . An attempt has been made to devise an optimum imaging protocol in a given group of disorders. It also compares the reliability of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and X ray Mammography in diagnosis by comp� it with histopathological diagnosis.